Page 10 - The Michigon Daily -Saturday, May 21 1983 HAPPENINGS (Continued from Page2) Films Mond Interfaith Council for Peace - Hiroshima-Nagasaki, Under the Nuclear Shadow, Gods of Metal, 7:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 1432 Washtenaw. Meetings Indoor Light Gardening Society-7:30 p.m., Matthaei Botanical Gardens Auditorium, 1800 Dixboro Rd. Ann Arbor Support Group for the Farm Labor Organizing Commit- tee-7:30 p.m., 308 E. William. Christian Science Organization-7:15 p.m., Room D, League. Tae Kwon Do Club-Practice, 6 p.m., behind IM Bldg. (if raining, CCRB Martial Arts Room). Miscellaneous The Performance Network-Audition, for Caberet, 7:00, 408 West Washington Street. Black enrollment drop Two men triumph in billboard sitting stunt ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - Two men Bethlehem, was forced to drop out in camped on a billboard for eight months March when he was arrested on in an endurance contest were both charges of possession and sale of declared winners by the contest spon- marijuana while on the billboard. sor yesterday - but they will remain on MacKay and Kistler came down for their perch for a few more days to several hours to testify at Young's raise money for charity. preliminary hearing, but they have not The two winners, Jim MacKay, 31, of left the platform since. Northampton and Ron Kistler, 25, of The stunt cost the station $12,000 a Coplay, will receive an $18,000 mobile month in rent for the billboard and con- home, the prize that lured them 15 feet testants' food and equipment, including in the air to the platform Sept. 20. They tents, electricity and telephones. will also receive a car, a wardrobe and MacKay, who got married shortly trips to the Bahamas and Las Vegas, before the contest started, said, "I'm said Don Rutt a spokesman for the going to get reacquainted with my wife sponsor radio station WSAN. after a good shower. Otherwise, I don't A third contestant, Dalton Young of think she'd let me get close to her." puts 'U' behind competition 4 4 4 (Continued fromPage 1) retaining black students once they are enrolled, she added. "Just throwing money at the problem will not necessarily make it go away," she said, "The new financial aid packages may have come too late to in- fluence next year's enrollment." The number of black students who graduate from the University is almost 16 percent lower than white students, according to the report. "A BLACK student is only half as likely as a white student to graduate within four years. Only one in four black students graduate within four years of their start at the University," the report said. Open Monday through Saturday 11 AM to 10 PM Open Sunday LOAM to 10 PM Sunday Brunches-All You Can Eat Until 2 PM Complete Bar Facilities Ann Arbor's Finest, Most Extensive Salad Bar Reservations available for private parties up to 70 Fine blue-grass music by The RFD Boys the first three Saturdays of every month. RESTAURANT 120 E. Liberty (313) 761-1470 In addition most black students who left the University had cumulative grade point averages of 2.0 or below, Nordby said. The University is not solely to blame for the drop in enrollment said Regent Nellie Varner (D-Detroit). The number of qualified black students graduating from high school is also decreasing. BUT OTHER schools are offering black students better financial aid packages, Varner said. "I am somewhat disheartened that we haven't made great progress in this area," she said adding that sever~l other schools which have adopted af- firmative action programs are stealing potential black students away from the University. For example, the University of California implemented a program which asks black students to sign study contracts as incentive to stay enrolled. The University's affirmative action of- fice is considering such a program, Nordby said. BOB HOLMES, assistant vice president for academic affairs said the University will implement other programs to combat the decreasing black student enrollment. The College of Engineering is curren- tly working on a recruiting program with Detroit high schoolsgtorattract black students to the University, Holmes said. University President Harold Shapiro told the Regents yesterday that new programs are being developed to in- crease black enrollment. THE UNIVERSITY has increased recruiting effortssto attractblack students, Shapiro said adding that the Minority Achievement Awards, a merit-based scholarship for in-state minority freshmen will be expaned in the fall. The drop in black student enrollment, puts the University farther away from its goal of increasing black enrollment to 10 percent Shapiro said. Private universities are targetting black students and offering better financial aid packages which the University cannot afford. However, "this fact does not excuse our poor per- formance," said Henry Johnson, vice president for student services. THE REPORT showed that those black students who do enroll at the University, the majority concentrate on the Social Sciences. Very few black students study quantitative and physical sciences. "The under-represented minorities are losing ground which is a very disturbing statistic. And among those who do attend the University, the at- trition rate is very high - that is not acceptable," Johnson said. Thereport presented to the Regents showed that overall minority enrollment including Hispanic and Native American students has remained almost the same. The num- ber of Asian students attending the University has doubled since 1977. THE STATISTICS in the report were calculated differently than in the 1977 report by excluding non-resident alien students and non-degree students, which makes the figures more con- sistent and according to many Univer- sity administrators "more frank," about the minority enrollment problems. Sociology Prof. Walter Allen presen- ted his research on black college students nationwide to the Regents and said the University is not doing any worse than national trends. 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